Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honorary chairwoman, without pay. The word "temporary" had been substituted for "honorary," and the President had not appointed his wife to anything. Nor would she consider under any circumstances ever being paid for charitable work. Said Action Director Michael Balzano Jr.: "Mrs. Nixon wouldn't accept a nickel for this." A White House aide meanwhile described the First Lady as "disturbed" by the entire episode...
...NICKEL MOUNTAIN...
...banality and a horror of sentiment. However skillfully they are written, there is often not enough at stake in contemporary novels to keep the mind and heart alive. Two of the most encouraging exceptions this year were John Leonard's Black Conceit and John Gardner's Nickel Mountain. The two books are also in a sense contrapuntal. In one, reality destroys illusion. In the other, illusion is accepted as a means of protecting love...
...office. Secretary Diana Reuter in our Atlanta bureau has joined a car pool instead of driving her own car to visit her horse at a stable outside town. The story is the same overseas. "Rarely worn sweaters are back in use in the evening," reports Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "And at the office, the knowledge that the landlord turns off the heat at 5:15 p.m. has quickened the pace of typewriters and telex machines...
Blocked Avenues. Meanwhile, Kim Dae Jung-the cause of the uproar -is preparing to take a research fellowship at Harvard. "I am as much concerned with politics as ever, and my views have not changed," he told TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "But under the present circumstances it has become impossible for me to carry out political activities here. If I wanted to organize a political party, people would not be free to join. If I wanted to make a speech, I would not be able to get a place where I could give...